PPM software providers covered under this market definition aim to support the selection, planning and execution of a variety of different work packages or containers, including, but not limited to, traditional projects. They often fold in collaboration and communication capabilities and allow work teams and project offices to report, monitor and identify course correction in resource-intensive project and work environments. Providers included in this market offer these capabilities directly through their own products, but frequently recognize that specific integration points may also be needed to connect niche tools or data sources. The PPM capabilities identified as essential or critical include:
•	Project demand management
•	Project planning and management
•	Time management
•	Resource management
•	Resource capacity planning
•	Project portfolio management
•	Project collaboration
•	Program management
•	Reporting services
•	Security and user management
•	Integration
•	Usability

Project and Portfolio Management

Gartner defines strategic portfolio management (SPM) as a set of business capabilities, processes and supporting portfolio management technology. Business leaders, enterprise portfolio management office (EPMO) leaders and IT leaders require SPM to support enterprisewide strategy-to-execution alignment and adaptation.
The SPM market addresses the integrated portfolio management technology needs of business leaders, EPMO leaders and IT leaders. SPM technology supports clear definition of key business strategies and desired business outcomes, and the formulation and mapping of these with key portfolio elements, such as business capabilities, investments, programs, digital and physical products, applications and projects.
SPM technology allows users to create multiple portfolio and subportfolio types with focused themes, such as programs, digital products, physical products, business or IT services, projects and applications. It allows users to link and cross-reference elements in the different portfolios and subportfolios to support integrated portfolio analysis and tracking.

Strategic Portfolio Management

Product roadmapping tools for software engineering have simplified product-related communication and streamlined product management and development efforts. This document profiles selected vendors and tools that can assist with:
Management of software product vision and strategy alignment
Communication of ideas and requirements
Decision making through an understanding of user behavior, data and analytics, priorities, and consequences
Defining software features and business capabilities, and handling backlogs
Planning and tracking software development releases
Financial and budget management
Collaboration on timelines
Communication, negotiation and updates
Integration planning and resource tracking
Report generation and notifications
Managing feedback from developers, teams and users
Support for continuous development and continuous integration

Product Roadmapping Tools for Software Engineering

Strategy and innovation roadmapping tools allow EA and technology innovation leaders to visually depict the relationship between strategy, innovation and the state of execution over time. The graphical nature of the interface and its ability to dynamically illustrate complex interrelationships and interdependencies — given supporting analytical lenses — make the use of strategy and innovation roadmapping tools powerful. 'Roadmapping' is a term that describes the activities of developing a roadmap. The combination of time across strategic layers (e.g., market, products and services, technology)  distinguishes roadmapping from innovation management alone, which targets idea generation, and the various selection, planning and execution stages of those ideas. Strategy and innovation roadmapping tools not only support the creation of roadmaps, but also incorporate different levels of analysis for each. Strategy and innovation analysis techniques may look both outward and inward.

Strategy and Innovation Roadmapping Tools

Innovation management tools market help organizations manage the flow of ideas from initial concept generation to final value realization or commercial exploitation. They support diverse methods to generate ideas, both internally or externally; to prioritize and select ideas; to act on selected ideas; to observe and measure activity and impact; and to operate innovation programs at scale.
Product capabilities include trendspotting, crowdsourcing, brainstorming or hackathons; stage-gate automation for idea evaluation and selection; and ways to manage a portfolio of active ideas (including idea execution to bring ideas to realization via project or product management).

Innovation Management Tools

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Evaluation and contract negotiation

Evaluation & Contracting

Ability to understand your organization's needs

Timely and complete response to product questions

Pricing and contract flexibility (pricing and terms)

Integration and deployment

Integration & Deployment

Availability of quality 3rd-party resources (integrators, service providers, etc.)

Ease of integration using standard APIs and tools

Quality and availability of end-user training

Ease of deployment

Service and support

Service & Support

Timeliness of vendor's response

Quality of technical support

Quality of peer user community

Product capabilities

Product Capabilities

IT Project Demand Management

IT Project and Time Management

IT Resource Management

IT Project Portfolio Management

IT Project Collaboration

Reporting Services

Security and User Management

IT Program Management

Integration

Usability

Resource Capacity Planning

Additional Context

Smartsheet

Microsoft Project

Microsoft

Wrike

Zoho Projects

Zoho

Planview AdaptiveWork

Planview

monday.com

Microsoft Planner

Teamwork

Clarity

Broadcom

Workfront

Adobe

10B - 30B USD

30B + USD

1B - 3B USD

3B - 10B USD

500M - 1B USD

Accolade

Wellspring (Sopheon)

Director Energy R&D

we are in the process of deploying accolade for innovation product development management PPM (not IT projects). Accolade is a good tool that allows configuration of our work processes. 

Logistics Support Executive

Accolade is that tool that has given us enough task tracking ability without any setbacks. We tend to enjoy it especially in monitoring and tracking all team operations ensuring the best effectiveness in overall.

Other...

Planisware

Clarizen--

Changepoint--

Decision Lens

Cerri

Eylean

Engineer

This tool provides a very good example of project management and process tracking for companies. For the projects where there are too many people in the team from very different departments it is very difficult for the project manager to keep inline the project, the deliverables and deadlines. This tool helps a lot to the project managers because you can see all at once all the deliverables, team members, deadlines, gate meeting notes so far and so forth. Especially for the stage and gate project management type it is very convenient interface. Creating product models, gathering sales forecasts and thus calculating BCC or do the feasibility is flawless with this tool. 

Project Engineer

Sopheon Accolade is a program for project management which works really well. This program helps their users to tracking all project management processes. You can access necessary information such as deadlines, team members, meeting notes etc. Its interface is also good and convenient.

Corporate Strategy Manager

Overall the Sopheon team has been very easy to work with and very accommodating. What has worked well is having a dedicated team of both internal and Sopheon resources utilizing a bi-weekly sprint process to build out the configuration. What has been more challenging is putting in place a more centralized process as part of the implementation. In addition, we have had some challenges with a fairly stringent testing process that requires configuration changes to be promoted across multiple environments and documented thoroughly.

project coach

(+) understanding of "Needs" & "Wants"; (+) adding best practices; (+) professional Team
(-) complex configuration: sometimes changes result in other

Active

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50M-1B USD

1B-10B USD

10B+ USD

Head of R&D

full support to achieve the required complete Stage Gate process (Idea to market) including many best practices which were presented, discussed and for most, implemented.

Project Director

Accolade is considered as user friendly by all users. Integration with MS Office applications is very good. The support team is very knowledgeable and helpful in configuring the system to our needs.

Sap Engineering & Technology Leader

Though being a small organisation, the vendor Sopheon is very attentive to the customer requirements. Sopheon’s Accolade solution provides unique, fully-integrated coverage for the entire innovation management and new product development lifecycle, including strategic innovation planning, roadmapping, idea and concept development, process and project management, portfolio management and resource planning.

R&D Informatics Business Analyst

The vendor is attentive to user needs. I would have given them a FIVE if they can act faster in response.

Director Business Planning & Commercial 

Good integration to other internal systems (e.g. SAP)
Easy to reflect our internal process in the system - configurable to our business
Very experienced consultants
Quick implementation
Good support during end user training and roll out
Good follow up after "go-live"


Director, Tech & Strategy

We have developed a very strong relationship with the company. They have been responsive to our needs and have supported us every step of the way.

Head of SBS Project Office

After understanding the applied methodology the implementation was easy using a prototyping approach.

Sopheon, a global company, assists organisations to achieve sustained revenue growth and profitability. It leverages its proprietary software solutions - Acclaim and Accolade, providing essential InnovationOps services. These services support product and project executives, and innovation leaders, in the overall management and successful execution of their duties. The company's software, dedicated to innovation management, helps organisations launch products faster, increase success rates, gain a competitive edge, and implement strategies more efficiently. Its all-encompassing approach to innovation and product development aids in enhanced decision making that is faster, smarter, and more profitable. Sopheon also provides tools for the governance and execution of strategies, significantly contributing to the successful operation of an organisation's innovation lifecycle. These tools cover areas such as product management, idea management, and project management.

Sopheon empowers organizations to change the world while achieving exceptional long-term revenue growth and profitability. 

Sopheon’s Accolade® and Acclaim™ offerings deliver the full spectrum of InnovationOps jobs that innovation, product and project professionals need to execute while driving innovations and products through their entire lifecycle. 

Introduce products faster, improve success rates, create competitive advantage, and deliver on strategy with the world’s leading software designed for innovation management.

Gain complete visibility into innovation and product development programs so you can consistently make smarter, faster, and more profitable decisions.

Manage and control strategy to the successful execution of your organization's innovation lifecycle. 

Our Products: 
Accolade® - The decision command center for innovation management, new product development, and R&D.
Acclaim™ Ideas - The only idea management tool you need to find, align, test and deliver the best ideas.
Acclaim™ Projects - The command center for Project Management Offices.
Acclaim™ Products -  The complete workspace for product professionals.

Sopheon’s leadership in InnovationOps was highlighted in the comprehensive MarketsandMarkets™ report on the Innovation Management market, in which Sopheon was listed in the “Stars” category, the highest recognition. Sopheon’s solutions have been implemented by hundreds of blue-chip customers with over 125,000 users in 50 countries. Sopheon is listed on the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange.
